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PoliticAverse

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1. The headline implies the poorest pay the highest rate but the article clearly claims...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2019, 08:05 PM

Sep 2019

that the middle class ( "middle 20%" ) do - something that isn't apparently changed by this reform.

Under Maine’s current tax code, the top one percent of households pay into state and local taxes an average effective tax rate of 8.6 percent of their yearly income. That is lower than the bottom 20 percent, which pay 8.7 percent, and well below the middle 20 percent, which pay 9.6 percent.

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Tax reforms credited with ensuring Maine's poorest no longer pay highest tax rate [View all] TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP

The headline implies the poorest pay the highest rate but the article clearly claims... PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #1